Bottle-seal.



No. 805,048. PATENTED Nov. 21, 1905.

J WERNITZ BOTTLE SEAL.

APPLICATION FILED 1030.28, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. BOTTLE-SEAL.

No. 805.0l8.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed December 28, 1904:. Serial No. 238,618.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHANN WERNITZ, a citizen of Russia, and a resident of Odessa, Russia, have invented certain new and useful 1mprovements in Bottle-Seals, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an elastic seal for bottles, which is illustrated on the drawings herewith, being shown as employed on the neck of a bottle, Figure 1 being a view of the upper portion of the neck of a bottle supplied with the elastic seal referred to. Fig. 2 is a plan of the device illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a seal in a position which permits the turning aside of the cork and its removal from the mouth of the bottle. Fig. 4 is a plan View of Fig. 3, while Fig. 5 is a sectional view through the stopper.

The elastic seal consists of the following parts: An open elastic ring a with ends passing each other carries in a hinge b a wire spring 0, connected with the cork by a corkscrew end f. The ring is applied around the neck of the bottle beneath its-head and carries a gliding lock g, by which the two ends of the ring are kept in their respective positions, one end of the said open ring a being a little bent outward.

T o the cork d I give the shape of an obtuse cone to fit it into any mouth of any bottle. On top, the said cork d is covered by a metal cap with a hole in the center, through which is passed a head-piece a to come with its bent rim between the said metal cap and the cork, an opening on top of the latter serving for the insertion of the corkscrew f of the aforesaid spring c, upon which the cork is afterward screwed. The said head-piece n is connected with a handle m, which facilitates the extraction of the cork out of the mouth of the bottle and its turning aside when it is intended to take some fluid out of the bottle and affords at the same time, jointly with the said hinge b, the necessary holdfast to the wire spring 0.

The seal described can be easily attached to any bottle and' easily removed therefrom. The aforesaid elastic open ring may be so compressed that it corresponds with any size of bottle-neck and is secured by means of the aforesaid lock g. If the neck should be very thick, the inner end of the ring may be taken entirely out of the look, so that there will be no limit to the width of the said ring. The gliding lock g should be placed in all cases just opposite the aforesaid hinge 6. In order to open the seal, I raise the cork by means of the handle m and turn it aside, so that it will not annoy on pouring out the fluid. I put the seal on again by turning the cork back toward the bottle and letting it down into the mouth of the same.

What I claim is A bottle-seal comprising an elastic ring having two free ends overlapping each other, a lock having sliding engagement with the free ends of the ring, a wire spring hinged to said ring, a plug connected to said wire spring, and a handle on said plug.

Signed at Odessa this 8th day of December, 1904.

J OH AN N WERNITZ.

Witnesses: I

THOMAS E. HEENAN, MUMSSEN STUMMENZELT. 

